Middle June

This month is half over and going so slowly.  We started out with a sad thing...John's youngest sister suddenly passed away.  Well, she'd been in ill health for many years.  Kay evidently had a heart attack or another stroke sometime that day.  We as a family cleared out her apartment the following Saturday and have planned a small private family service at the lake in mid-July.  We will scatter her ashes at the lake and then have a family picnic to celebrate her life.  We are so grateful for the time we had with her...she was 61 years old and would constantly remind us the she was the baby of the family!  Sweet Kay, RIP.

Our outside temperatures are rising, as they do in June.  We have hit 90 degrees several times already.  The humidity is rising as well.  Another miserable summer.  Sigh!

We just received word that our oldest granddaughter is getting married in early September.  The ceremony and reception will be held at the family cabin near Sundance, Utah.  It would be a really hard trip for mom so we are taking her to Phoenix to visit with my brothers while we drive up to Utah for the wedding. After the wedding, we will drive back down to Phoenix to pick mom up and then fly home.  Not a lot of time to prepare for a wedding but since it will be a small, intimate one, they can get it done.  Emily and Trent will begin their new life in Pocatello, Idaho where he has started a new job with the U.S. Forest Service.  

Shiloh turned 6 months old in mid-May.  Last Friday he went in for a small procedure to turn him into a gentleman.  They wanted us to keep him quiet for 7-10 days - no going down the stairs to the dog run, only going outside on a lead and then coming back in after he's done his business.  Keep an eye on his incision to make sure it doesn't swell or get infected.  Well, the day of his surgery, we brouht him home about 3:00 and he was pretty loopy.  He probably was a bit sore, too.  He spent a lot of time laying on one or the other of his pads (there are 3 pads throughout the house for his reclingin pleasure - our bedroom, the great room, and my studio). He didn't really let me or John out of his sight. On Saturday, he was a bit friskier and by Sunday he was back to being his old self.  Sunday afternoon I let him out the doggy door to go down the stairs to the dog run...he never runs down anyway, always carefully making his way down and back up.  His incision is doing really well - no swelling or infection at all.  That 7-10 days restriction just didn't work for our energetic puppy - he's mostly healed already and full of 'piss and vinegar' again!   Although, sometimes he just falls asleep where he stops....

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